MI6's 00-Section Training Supervisor, Bruce Mason, goes missing, along with files that reveal the names and fitness status of 00-agents, and circumstantial evidence points to Russian involvement.

With the press branding Mason a traitor, hoping to embarrass MI6, C, the new head of MI6, turns to agent Samurai for help. Can he locate Mason, rescue him, return him to England, and prove his innocence.

Mike uncovers evidence in the Russian Federation of dark conspiracy, leading back to the notorious 1999 bombing incidents, and, ultimately, very close to the doorstep of Putin, himself, and learns that the KGB still exists, but now calls itself the FSB.